blandino
John
J.
Blandino
Aerospace Engineering
Associate Professor
Affiliated Department or Office
Aerospace Engineering
Education
BS Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) 1987
MS Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 1989
PhD California Institute of Technology 2001
Expert Bio

Professor Blandino conducts research in electric propulsion for spacecraft and performs analysis of more challenging missions that are enabled by this technology. He is also involved in the investigation of electrical discharges used to produce ionized gases (plasmas) for different applications, as well as heat transfer related to aerospace systems.

Research areas/Expertise
Spacecraft propulsion
Spacecraft mission analysis
Plasma discharges and diagnostics
Interaction of electric fields with single and multiphase fluid flows

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